The Quarterly Review, Volume 266William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1936 |
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Page 197
... truth to say - rather a humourless old ass , capable of such stupid notes on Rochester , develop into the genial and , indeed , irresistible hero of the later chapters ? ( To call him genial is without prejudice to the truth of Father ...
... truth to say - rather a humourless old ass , capable of such stupid notes on Rochester , develop into the genial and , indeed , irresistible hero of the later chapters ? ( To call him genial is without prejudice to the truth of Father ...
Page 283
... truth being , as usual , stranger than fiction . The tales brought from America by shipmen and explorers with such as Captain John Smith's virtuous redskin princess , Pocahontas , to illustrate them , and of fabulous mountains of pearls ...
... truth being , as usual , stranger than fiction . The tales brought from America by shipmen and explorers with such as Captain John Smith's virtuous redskin princess , Pocahontas , to illustrate them , and of fabulous mountains of pearls ...
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... truth ; but we feel that they soften the faults unduly ; while their account of the Metro - Vickers trial is almost a travesty . According to them the principal blundering villain in that piece was the British Government . Nothing is ...
... truth ; but we feel that they soften the faults unduly ; while their account of the Metro - Vickers trial is almost a travesty . According to them the principal blundering villain in that piece was the British Government . Nothing is ...
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